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Sheetal Joshi

Author: Sheetal Joshi

Sheetal Joshi is a Principal Developer Advocate on the Amazon EKS team. Sheetal worked for several software vendors before joining AWS, including HP, McAfee, Cisco, Riverbed, and Moogsoft. For about 20 years, she has specialized in building enterprise-scale, distributed software systems, virtualization technologies, and cloud architectures. At the moment, she is working on making it easier to get started with, adopt, and run Kubernetes clusters in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge.

Getting started with Amazon EKS Auto Mode

This post is co-authored by Alex Kestner (Sr Product Manager, Amazon EKS), Ashley Ansari (Sr. Product Marketing Manager), Robert Northard (Principal GTM SSA Containers), and Sheetal Joshi (Principal Solution Architect, Containers). Introduction We announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode that provides a new capability streamlining Kubernetes cluster management for […]

A deep dive into simplified Amazon EKS access management controls

Introduction Since the initial Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) launch, it has supported AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) principals as entities that can authenticate against a cluster. This was done to remove the burden—from administrators—of having to maintain a separate identity provider. Using AWS IAM also allows AWS customers to use their […]

Use shared VPC subnets in Amazon EKS

Introduction In the ever-changing landscape of cloud computing, organizations continue to face the challenge of effectively managing their virtual network environments. To address this challenge, many organizations have embraced shared Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs) as a means to streamline network administration, and reduce costs. Shared VPCs not only provide these advantages but also enable […]

Network Load Balancers now support Security groups

Introduction At AWS, we offer security from the get-go by providing you the ability to use Security Groups and Security Group rules to configure the fine-grained control over the traffic that flows to and from AWS resources such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, AWS Databases, Application Load Balancers, and Containers. On August […]

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.27

Introduction The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.27 for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. Amazon EKS Anywhere (release 0.16.0) also supports Kubernetes 1.27. The theme for this version was chosen to recognize the fact that the release was pretty chill. Hence, the fitting release […]

Introducing AWS Gateway API controller for Amazon VPC Lattice, an implementation of Kubernetes Gateway API

Introduction Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice a new feature of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that gives you a consistent way to connect, secure, and monitor communication between your services. As part of the launch of Amazon VPC Lattice, we’re excited to introduce the AWS Gateway API controller, an […]

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.24

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.24

The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) team is pleased to announce support for Kubernetes version 1.24 for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. We are excited for our customers to experience the power of the “Stargazer” release. Each Kubernetes release is given a name by the release team. The team chose “Stargazer” for this […]

Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts now supports local clusters

Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts now supports local clusters

Introduction Since its release, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) has made it easier to run Kubernetes and container applications reliably at scale. With Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts, you can simplify application delivery onto on-premises AWS Outposts infrastructure by using the same application programming interfaces (APIs), console, and tools you use to run Amazon […]

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How to route UDP traffic into Kubernetes

Since its release, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) has been helping customers to run their applications reliably and at scale. UDP, or User Datagram Protocol, is a low-latency protocol that is ideal for workloads such as real-time streaming, online gaming, and IoT. The Network Load Balancer (NLB) is designed to handle tens of millions […]

Amazon EKS launches IPv6 support

The ongoing growth of the internet, particularly in the fields of mobile applications, IoT, and application modernization, has led to an industry-wide move to IPv6. With 128 bits of address space, IPv6 can provide 340 undecillion IP addresses, compared to 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses. Over the last several years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added […]